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lispi314

@lispi314@mastodon.top

Programmer and Free Software proponent.

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Software and Assumed Privilege, common problems: https://mastodon.top/@lispi314/111253066257920146

Writing Privacy-preserving software & services 101: https://mastodon.top/@lispi314/110849018589421824

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currentbias, (edited ) to random
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"Delivering 200-500 cubic feet per minute of clean air means the boxes filter 1000-2000 faster than an adult human breathes!"

These look phenomenal:

https://www.cleanairkits.com/

And the company is on mastodon @zeroes.ca:

https://zeroes.ca/@cleanairkits

lispi314,
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@currentbias That's not a bad rate at all. Should suffice for fairly large rooms for the >=5x air changes an hour.

currentbias, to random
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"No one, absolutely no one, is invulnerable to this virus, so we have to hammer this point home to anyone who thinks it's just something that only affects the old and immunocompromised."

https://www.reddit.com/r/ZeroCovidCommunity/comments/17d28oq/the_myth_that_covid_only_gravely_affects_a_subset/

lispi314,
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@currentbias After a few times catching it, chances are one will become immunocompromised.

So in the end, even if it were true, that's something a few infections will quickly fix.

parismarx, to random
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visited the museum of communism in prague and it was fun to see all the anti-communist tropes in one place, like how bad it was that the state built a lot of housing

lispi314,
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@parismarx Yeah... looking at it here from , I'm thinking "can I haz pl0x?"

whitequark, to random
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thinking about a back-and-forth i've seen a long time ago that went roughly "don't support Amazon, they're awful" "but I'm disabled and can't live without next day deliveries" "[paraphrased] you can walk, you should be able to get groceries too"

so we can walk. there's a grocery store nearby that takes less than 10 minutes to get to. i can go there easily. then, after i return, i regularly spend anywhere between one and four hours in a fugue-like fatigue induced state.

(cont.)

lispi314,
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@natik @whitequark The energy wasted on avoiding them is also energy that could instead have been spent far more productively on things like supporting motions for antitrust or consumer protections that would ultimately have much greater effect for the energy expenditure than just... not buying something from an effective .

It's basically in the same vein as voting with your wallet, while forgetting that means the capitalists have more votes than you.

lispi314,
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@natik @whitequark So the performative purism is both less effective (if at all effective) and more harmful to yourself.

lispi314,
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@natik @whitequark The funny part is I felt like I paraphrased it much less elegantly than @pluralistic has stated it many times.

I reposted recently (https://mastodon.top/@lispi314/111281236058794591) one of the articles where I read the sentiment (to some point) contrasted with a more effective take, which is in part why it is so memorable to me.

lispi314,
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@natik Well, actually I'd used the podcast version of the article to bypass the Medium paywall, but same difference, there's just some additional talk & other tangents prepended & appended in the podcast.

lispi314, to random
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@strypey @screwtape @ellenor2000 https://github.com/ssbc/ssb-db/issues/202#issuecomment-1765286670
https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/src/branch/main/fep/ae97/fep-ae97.md

is interesting, but while it makes possible open relays (in the -relay sense) obviating the dependency on much static infrastructure for message emission, reception remains a problem.

Is there a reception counterpart to it?

lispi314, to random
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Man I hate , bunch of rentier fuckwads.

when?

There's no point in standards no one can use because they're too expensive to read or patent-encumbered.

lispi314,
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@dekkzz76 Mostly compliance/verification businesses no?

Which makes the rent-seeking even more counterproductive, as they'd have more business if the standards were easier to see and more interesting to implement.

lispi314,
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@ve7fim That's a very nice development indeed.

badlogic, to random
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A big local news paper wrote an article about BlueSky. They embedded a recent Mastodon post of mine. As an unstyled iframe. Without realizing I can edit the post.

I used it to advertise for our charity
https://cards-for-ukraine.at

Sorry for the notifications you got due to the edits!

screenshot of the same article with the embedded podt, showing the edited text "Standard, you can style iframes via CSS" plus a link to our charity https://cards-for-ukraine.at

lispi314,
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@badlogic I guess the editor didn't run that by their webdev team first.

That's sort of the point of that element.

lispi314, to fediverse
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I really can't help but look at this whole blocklist drama with some amusement tinged with exasperation.

Anyone who has done remotely any reading on systems and systems just has that flaw jump to their eyes when the state of implementations is seen, and in general how no importance is given to communication in the spec and nearly as little to P2P use.

Basically, what did you expect? Of course it'll devolve into petty fiefdoms.

lispi314,
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@smallcircles As far as the goes, I think that proper is unlikely to get implemented by many, but can be and indeed has already been before.

Popularizing it is another matter, and the issues inherent on hosting & communicating with anything that is primarily reliant on the and doesn't have explicit expectations of transport diversity don't make things easier either.

lispi314,
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@thisismissem @smallcircles I think between client signatures and scoring heuristics (mix-in some web of trust for scores) one could get something pretty nice.

Either operating full whitelist mode or in mixed-mode where various interactions of one's friends can affect scoring positively or negatively.

At the moment it's not like manually registering on dozen of instances (or hosting them temporarily) isn't feasible for griefing, so I don't think that changes much with nomadism.

lispi314,
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@thisismissem @smallcircles I recall some domain & subdomains pulling that stuff in some fediblock discussion.

lispi314,
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@thisismissem @smallcircles That's fair. Personally I'm more concerned with the participation hurdles the involves, given how hard it is to register an account without doxing oneself these days.

(Nevermind hosting one's own instance, which involves even more PII.)

Hurdles which, unfortunately, nomadic identity is woefully insufficient to address (it addresses sudden instance death & mitigates the fiefdoms a bit, but that's about it).

lispi314,
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@strypey @smallcircles I'm rather disinclined to consider corposcum (and other capitalists) for saving anything especially anything that contributes to the freedom of anyone, given they're largely the reason why things have gotten so bad.

ada, to random

please use matrix we have:

  • a client made by an enterprise who will willingly backdoor your messages
  • a client made by 3 people that get random breaking changes that completely obliterate flow
  • a client that is one giant html5 canvas that uses 100% of your browser gpu power
  • a client that requires systemd
  • way too many abandoned android and ios clients

please use fedi we have:

  • an instance software which is so popular but so feature deprived it makes no sense why it exists, also it's trademarked in a bad way
  • an instance software that has so much code rot it spawned 500 forks to try and fix it only to become rotten themselves
  • an instance software that doesn't really know what it's doing and instead implemented 3 different api standards, and this is the fork i'm talking about. no one should talk about the upstream project.

this really is the FOSS curse, huh?

lispi314,
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@kkarhan @Natanox @ada Some caveats at the fuel part that some policies are very much being used to tilt things their way (isn't regulatory capture & mass infrastructure destruction followed by motivated car-dependent development great⸮).

The rest about healthy ecosystem & open standards is right though.

lispi314,
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@KatS @kkarhan @Natanox @ada I'd be somewhat disinclined to assume that lesser demands necessarily means lesser production or waste.

Considering the sheer amount of clothes and food that are destroyed after not being sold?

shoq, to random
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Congratulations, Earthlings! You have reached peak-skepticism, where my first inclination is to disbelieve almost every story I see. Anywhere. By anyone. About anything.

Source: @RememberUsAlways
https://mastodon.social/@RememberUsAlways@newsie.social/111275453178638562

lispi314,
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@shoq @RememberUsAlways Wait, so all we need to get corposcum like them out of the room is to criticize authoritarians & fascists for the atrocities they proudly show to the world?

Well shit that's worth noting down.

simon_on_energy, to random
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UK government keeping files on teaching assistants and librarians’ internet activity - and then pulling funding from conferences if people who have criticised their policy remain on the programme.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/oct/21/uk-government-keeping-files-on-teaching-assistants-and-librarians-internet-activity?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

lispi314,
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@zleap @simon_on_energy Common sense is forbidden, hard labor.

lispi314, to cnc
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Interestingly, custom from files, while a thing, seems not to have gotten the cheap or treatment.

That is somewhat vexing, it seemed like my best bet for food-safe stuff.

lispi314,
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@dekkzz76 Well yes. Thankfully shipping would take long-enough it would probably be safe to handle. 😼

lispi314,
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@dekkzz76 Alas all of those are needed for the laser sharks and mecha-piloting penguins.

AkaSci, (edited ) to voyager
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NASA is sending a software update to the Voyager 2 spacecraft today!

The patch contains logic to auto-recover from glitches similar to one in May 2022, when the AACS system on Voyager 1 started sending garbled data. The root cause was not fully diagnosed. The patch will be activated/tested on Oct 28. Voyager 1 will be next.

Data will be sent at 16 bps with a 19 kW transmitter using the 70-m dish at @canberradsn.
Distance: 20 billion km; 18:40 light hours

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-voyager-team-focuses-on-software-patch-thrusters

1/n

lispi314,
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@AkaSci @14mission @nytpu @tpuddle I wonder if it'd be possible to bug the contractor until they relent and share it.

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